Initial Public Offerings

Wondering whether to take a chance and invest in a company that's about to go public? You might want to tune in to Twitter, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University say. The chatter on Twitter and other social media channels is already being mined to check the pulse of movie premieres, new product launches and even the broader stock market. At Hopkins, a finance professor and graduate student have zeroed in on Twitter's impact on a more focused equity arena — initial public offerings, or the first time a company sells stock and it begins trading on a public exchange. "Twitter matters for financial data," and can be used to predict IPO performance, researcher...

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Online crafts retailer Etsy says it expects to raise as much as $267 million from an initial public offering that values the company at up to $1.78 billion.
The New York company says its IPO will include 16.7 million shares, and it expects them to price...

Credit reporting company TransUnion on Tuesday filed documents for an initial public offering, seeking to raise as much as $100 million for the Chicago-based company.
Its competitors, Equifax and Experian, already are publicly traded.
TransUnion...

Transforming lives is the theme of Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's Power of Music Festival.
Pianist Lisa Smirnova, who headlines the April 10 to 12 event in Frankfort and Chicago Heights, said she can relate to that.
"Music allows (us) to...

As Etsy turns 10 years old, the ballooning online marketplace of all things crafty, vintage and handmade is laying the groundwork for its future.
Earlier this month, the Brooklyn-based craft site filed documents to go public in what is expected to be one...

Less than two months after their soaring stock market debuts, Shake Shack and Box are facing the reality of being a public company.
Shares of the burger chain and cloud-storage company tumbled Thursday after each reported quarterly earnings for the first...

Etsy, the online retailer used by hobbyists and people who make their living selling their crafts, is going public.
The Brooklyn-based company filed paperwork Wednesday for an initial public offering of stock valued at up to $100 million. It did not...

What started as a conversation between state Sen. Toi Hutchinson, D-Olympia Fields, and Andrew Bradford, former Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra executive director, resulted in the world premiere of two dance pieces.
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Cello + Chocolate: An Evening of Decadent Delight is the first IPO Presents event of the 2014-15 season on Saturday, February 7, at 8PM at the Lincoln-Way North Performing Arts Center in Frankfort. And it's a match made in heaven! Guests will be treated...

Etsy, the online marketplace for crafts and vintage items, may be getting ready to do an initial public offering. The site that started as masking tape on the floor of a Brooklyn apartment now has about 26 million items for sale, and it is hoping to raise...

Shake Shack, the upscale burger joint started by restaurateur Danny Meyer, hopes to raise as much as $100 million in an initial public offering.The chain, which began in 2001 as a cart selling Chicago-style Vienna Beef hot dogs in New York's Madison...

As online lender Enova International goes public Thursday, interim Chief Technology Officer Joe DeCosmo celebrates the moment while focusing on the months ahead.
Enova, a 10-year-old company that spun off from Fort Worth, Tex.-based Cash America,...

It was just another hungry late night at work, but Matt Maloney sensed an opportunity. In 2004, he and co-worker Mike Evans launched GrubHub, an online food-ordering service, in Chicago. Lately, business has been good. After making the Inc. 500 in 2010...

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Saturday, October 18, 2014, marks Opening Night for the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's 37th Season at their home venue, Lincoln-Way North Performing Arts Center, 19900 S. Harlem Avenue in Frankfort. This year's opening program will delight classical...

The U.S. IPO market could be heading toward a record year, with the number of public offerings in the first nine months of 2014 nearly equal to those in all of 2013.
If the pace of IPOs remains on track, 2014 could surpass the booming IPO markets of 2007...

The hottest company in the business world is a Chinese firm with an Arabic name going public on a U.S. stock market.
Oh, and one of the biggest beneficiaries of this development is ... the American economy.
How can that be? Read on:
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Citizens Financial Group Inc., the U.S. unit of Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland, said its initial public offering was expected to raise as much as $3.5 billion, making it the biggest U.S. offering by a bank this year.The company said the offering of...

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GrubHub Inc. said on Monday that the company and some of its biggest shareholders, including its CEO, plan to sell off some of their shares just months after the company went public.
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Inc. Magazine recently spoke with Chip Paucek about his online-education tech company, 2U and how it grew.
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